The New Economics Foundation (NEF), a leading think tank with many years of experience in social impact measurement, is leading the project on behalf of the partnership. The Quality and Impact Project brings together for the first time a number of key players in this area.

The partnership is working with the Social Audit Network, a body of practitioners who practice social auditing and impact measurement, particularly with community organisations, in planning its delivery. An expert group has been formed to advise on the delivery and planning.

The project seeks to capture the experience of up to 60 social enterprises using impact and quality tools. The core activity of the SEP Quality and Impact project is the development and/or testing a range of social enterprise quality and impact tools through a series of pilot projects. The project centrally will provide training and support to the pilot projects who will use a range of different quality and impact tools.